Tag: military
member name: Walker Bennett, SF Author
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January 15, 2009 04:08 PM EST --
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has said that he will most likely reintroduce legislation to reinstate the universal military draft this year.
Asked if he plans to introduce the legislation again in 2009, . . .
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December 17, 2009 12:53 PM EST --
Morris Davis, a retired Air Force colonel who was chief military prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, showed courage and respect for democratic principles when he resigned rather than follow orders . . .
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August 15, 2009 01:41 AM EDT --
U.S. to Resume Training Georgian Troops :
The United States is resuming a combat training mission in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to prepare its army for counterinsurgency operations . . .
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September 30, 2009 03:26 PM EDT --
US TO TEACH CANADIANS FRENCH
The Tocqueville Connection Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:40 AM PDT
OTTAWA , Sept 30, 2009 (AFP) - Americans are to teach Canadian soldiers to speak French -- one of Canada's . . .
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January 17, 2009 06:39 AM EST --
Obama May End Military's Ban on Gays
January 07, 2009
Agence France-Presse
Sixteen years after Bill Clinton tried to end restrictions on gays in the military, the U.S. armed . . .
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February 02, 2009 03:47 PM EST --
A military judge has directly challenged President Barack Obama's order to suspend trials of alleged "terrorists" by military tribunals at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, . . .
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June 08, 2009 08:29 AM EDT --
June 4, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs. CITIES OF EUREKA AND ARCATA, CA
UPDATE ON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE EFFORTS TO INVALIDATE THE ARCATA AND EUREKA YOUTH PROTECTION . . .
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November 22, 2009 11:08 PM EST --
The poor and lower middle-class are already pre-selected. Who registers for Selective Service? Anyone who wants a Pell Grant. Who qualifies for Pell Grants. The poor. They'll simply come after those and . . .
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November 01, 2009 03:27 PM EST --
The contractor, Aecom Government Services, charged $237 for a vehicle side mirror that was supposed to cost $14.88, according to the report. The company also submitted invoices to the U.S. military in . . .
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March 10, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
Duties would include mass internment of citizens after terrorist attack, mirroring militarization of law enforcement in U.S. and Britain
The Canadian military is reorganizing its priorities to suit . . .
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August 18, 2009 10:49 PM EDT --
I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory . . .
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August 02, 2009 08:29 PM EDT --
Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire
And Ten Steps to Take to Do So
By Chalmers Johnson
According to the 2008 official Pentagon inventory of our military bases around . . .
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May 05, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
You Might be a Military Brat...
if you actually like the clothes at the PX and don't mind that 100 other people are wearing the same thing.
if you wish you were back at the last place . . .
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May 19, 2009 08:49 AM EDT --
I saw this a week ago in the Times:
Soldier in pink boxers fought Taliban
FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan has become a media sensation after he was photographed . . .
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May 30, 2009 01:52 PM EDT --
US Army Base Shuts Down After Rise In Suicides
The commander of Fort Campbell army base in Kentucky has ordered a three-day suspension of regular duties to focus on a spike in suicides . . .
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May 30, 2009 02:13 PM EDT --
Vet Voice: Petraeus Says U.S. Violated Geneva Conventions -- What Will Cheney And Rush Say?
I recently chronicled the quickening departure of some big military names from the Republican party, those . . .
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June 14, 2009 08:47 AM EDT --
In An Attempt To Criticize Health Reform, Senator Coburn Smears Veteran Health Care As "˜Untenable To Most Americans'
Coburn laid out his criticism of the proposed public insurance option in Obama's . . .
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July 18, 2009 09:46 AM EDT --
The military has plans for a new kind of drone robot that will wander the wastelands of future battlefields, scooping up organic debris - such as dead bodies - and burning them to fuel their advance. . . .
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August 04, 2009 08:49 AM EDT --
Normally I consider using the words FOX and news in the same sentence is an oxymoron, but they have a point here.
Remember, Northcom includes Canada and Mexico under the new North American Alliance . . .
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August 18, 2009 09:23 PM EDT --
The stress would be much less if they would stop sending people back for three or four tours in a row. It was one on and one off in Vietnam and that should be enforced now. Also bring the . . .
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